He leaves reluctantly to reoccupy his body and this earth. These realms are both familiar and strange, containing music that doesn’t sound like music and light brighter than any light, and creatures that may or may not be angels, and the familiar faces of loved ones lost as well as figures from history and sometimes-depending on the narrator-even Jesus himself. And then, all at once, he is being guided through other worlds that look and feel to him more “real” than the world in which he once existed. Perhaps he encounters an opening: a gate, a door, a tunnel. A feeling of disconnection comes over him, a sense of being “outside” himself. For thousands of years, certain people have claimed to have actually visited the place that, Saint Paul promised, “no eye has seen … and no human mind has conceived,” and their stories very often follow the same narrative arc.Ī skeptic, a rogue or an innocent suffers hardship or injury: he is hit on the head, he suffers a stroke, he sustains damage in a car crash or on the operating table. This question is more than a mind-bender.
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